Location of Aberdeen University

The original buildings of both colleges which united to form the University are much admired architectural features of Aberdeen. The main campus is now at King's College, where the original buildings are still in use in addition to many newer buildings of largely modernist style. A second campus at Foresterhill houses theSchool of Medicine and Dentistry. In addition, there are smaller facilities at other sites such as the Royal Cornhill Hospital to the west of the city centre, and theRowett Institute in Bucksburn.

King's College campus has an area of ​​about 35 hectares around the old buildings of the University of King and Main Street. Home to about two thirds of the inheritance built the university and most students facilities and is 2 miles north of the center Aberdeencity. The university does not own all the buildings in the "campus" which also include private homes, shops and businesses (although many of them rely heavily on the custom of the university community) and is better as a city dominated district by the University. It can be reached from the city center by bus routes 1, 2, 13, 19 and 20 operated by First Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire from North or the bus station in Union Square for several routes operated by Stagecoach Bluebird.

The historic buildings of King's college form a ring with inner courtyard, two parts of which have been rebuilt and expanded with a wing of the library in the 19th century The crown of the tower and the chapel, the oldest part, dating from around 1500. The crown of the tower is crowned by a structure about 40 feet (12 m) high, consisting of a six-sided lantern and royal crown, both sculptured, and resting on the intersection of two slips ornamental arched rising from the four corners of the top of the tower. This crown, also known as the "Crown of Kings", often acts as a symbol of the university. The chapel contains choir stalls original oak canopied seating and high open screens Miserere in the French flamboyant style. They were preserved by the Director of the university during the Reformation, who fought against the local barons who had attacked the nearby cathedral of St Machar. The wing of the library became a place of exhibitions and conferences in the 1990s and today is also home of the University Business School.